THE LIFE OF HANNAH MORE: WITH NOTICES OF HER SISTERS. BY HENRY THOMPSON, M. A. CURATE OF WRINGTON, SOMERSET. Fu giusta, e saggia, e forte; Onor del sesso Donna che fuor della volgare schiera Il Ciel già diede al secol nostro in sorte; Che mortal ne sembrò sol perchè visse." FILICAJA, Sonnetto xxviii. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I: PHILADELPHIA: E. L. CAREY & A. HART. 1838. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 155182 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899. GRIGGS & CO., PRINTERS. то HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, VICTORIA, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THE gracious and condescending permission which Your Majesty has granted me to prefix your name to this Volume, seems to require, while it encourages, an explanation of the circumstances which induced me to solicit so exalted an honour. As one of the most distinguished ornaments of her sex, the memory of Hannah More, I felt, could no where be more appropriately cherished than in the heart of Your Majesty; as the steady supporter and zealous maintainer of the throne, the record of her loyalty might hope to repose in its shadow; |